The room at the Ritz-Carlton was spectacular. The filet mignon at Kevin Rathbun Steak? Superb. Yet what truly lured Lynn and Anne Fowler from Decatur, Ala., to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary here was the memory of that first date.

Every college town has them, establishments where fans gather on game day to eat, drink and get in the football mood for football, places filled with so much tradition that even opposing fans can be found there. The really good ones attract customers year-round and from all over.

Hawaii will enjoy its second idle Saturday in the last three weeks caught in Bowl Championship Series limbo respected by the polls as an undefeated contender but dismissed by the computers as an untested pretender.

City officials have revealed the city's new slogan; "Atlanta: Every day is an opening day." The "new slogan is designed to reflect the feeling of anticipation one gets when something they have been waiting for finally happens," the tagline's creator said.

The Sugar Bowl will announce Friday that its 2006 game is officially moving out of Louisiana and into Atlanta's Georgia Dome. Scheduled to be held on Jan. 2, it will be the third major game there - after the Peach Bowl on Dec. 30 and a Falcons' home game on New Year's Day - in four days.

Thursday has been a long time coming for Eastern Kentucky University. More than a quarter-century, actually. Not since 1979 has EKU gone to the NCAA Tournament, and the record isn't good. The school has gone only five times and always lost.